as well of the said Francis as of the Bishop of Durham whom it concerned should on Saturday then next following be heard what could on either side be said in furtherance or disallowance of the same The Bill also for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Monday the 22 th day of February two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was secunda vice lect but no mention is made that it was either Ordered to be ingrossed or referr'd to Committees because it had been formerly sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons On Tuesday the 23 th day of February the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty was read tertiâ vice communi omnium Procerum assensu conclus and sent to the House of Commons by Serjeant Carus and Doctor Huicke Nota That this Bill of Subsidy after it had passed the Upper House was not by them altered or amended in any thing but only sent back again unto the House of Commons to whom it did most properly belong and is on the last day of the Parliament or Session of Parliament to be brought up by the Speaker of the said House as it was at this time on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing and presented unto her Majesty by Thomas Williams Esq Prolocutor of the said House at this present Session before she gave her Royal Assent to such Acts as passed On Thursday the 25 th day of February the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read the first time On Saturday the 27 th day of February the Bill for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them read prima vice Eight Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill of one Subsidy and two Fifteens and Tenths granted by the Temporalty and the second against carrying over Sheep Skins and Pelts over the Seas not being Staple Ware were each of them returned conclus This day according to the Order formerly taken Sir Francis Jobson with his Counsel came before the Lords and by them declared ..... And no more is set down in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and by the negligence of the Clerk the matter is so left abruptly but it doth plainly appear that it was touching the Assurance of certain Lands which concerned the Bishop of Durham ut videas on Saturday the 20 th of this Instant February foregoing On Monday the first day of March two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of the Sons and Daughters of the late Lord Hussey was read prima vice A Proviso to be annex'd to the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all Estates and Subjects within her Dominions was read primâ secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand On Tuesday the 2 d day of March Ten Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the Province of Canterbury and the second against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees were each of them read prima vice The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of the Children of Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Canterbury was read secunda tertia vice conclus and was with the Bill for the Children of the Lord Hussey which had likewise this day passed the House upon the third reading sent to the House of Commons by Sir Richard Read and Serjeant Carus On Wednesday the 3 d day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Royal Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions was read tertia vice with certain Provisions thereunto annexed by the Lords which were thrice severally read conclus A Proviso annexed by the House of Commons to the Bill against forging of false Deeds was read prima secunda tertia vice commissa Domino Rich Domino Willoughby Primario Justiciario Banci Regii Justiciario Browne Quod Nota Because no Bill or Proviso is usually committed after the third reading On Thursday the 4 th day of March The Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlain Knight and John Haleston Esq The Bill against such as sell Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under two hundred pound Lands or Fees The Bill for the punishments of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians And the Bill for uniting of Churches within the City of Winchester were each of them read secunda vice but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords The Bill also for Restitution in Blood of William West and the Bill for the Town of Southampton were each of them read the first time and thereupon committed to Justice Southcote Serjeant Carus and the Queens Attorney Nota That these two Bills last mentioned were not only committed after the first reading which is not usual till the second but also committed to meer Assistants which are not Members of the House and therefore in both respects the President is more rare and remarkable vide consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of Jan. foregoing On Saturday the 6 th day of March The Bill for the Subsidy of the Clergy And the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Edward Turner were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus commis Servienti Carus Ricardo Read in Domum Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first was the bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas and the second touching Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Three Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the further punishment of Vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians was read tertia vice conclusa dissentiente Comite Arundel On Monday the 8 th day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money c. The Bill declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper
of the Great Seal of England and the Lord Chancellor to be all one And the Bill touching the true fulling and thicking of Caps were each of them read the third time and concluded Et unà cum aliâ Billa For the making Denizens of certain Children born beyond the Seas commissae sunt Attorn Dom. Reginae Doctori Huick in Dom. Communem deferend Three Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill against such as shall sell any Wares for Apparel without ready money to persons under three thousand pound Lands or Fees was returned conclus And the last was the Bill that the Hospital Church of St. Katherine near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School Two Bills lastly of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Inchantments Sorceries and Witchcraft was read the first time On Tuesday the 9 th day of March Nine Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir PeterCarew Knight And the second against Inchantments Sorceries Witchcrafts c. were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be engrossed or referr'd to Committees because they had been formerly sent to the Lords from the House of Commons The sixth being the Bill for the uniting and annexing of Churches was read primâ vice commissa Justiciario Southcot ut in duos libros redigatur On Wednesday the 10 th day of March the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of William West And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Sir William Carew Knight were each of them read tertiâ vice conclus Eight other Bills had each of them one reading of which the three last the one for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed Another touching the Lord Viscount Bindon And the third for the relief of the Poor were each of them read secunda vice On Thursday the 11 th day of March the Bill for avoiding of divers Foreign Wares made by Handy-crafts-men beyond the Seas The Bill against fond and phantastical Prophecies And the Bill for the punishment of the vice of Buggery were each of them read tertia vice conclusae commissae sunt Attornato Dominae Reginae Doctori Yale in Domum Communem deferend Six other Bills also of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill against Forgers of false Deeds and Writings and the third being the Bill for Badgers of Corn and Drovers of Cattle to be Licensed were each of them read tertia vice conclus Four Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Confirmation of the Subsidy granted by the Clergy and the second declaring the Authority of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal and the Lord Chancellor to be one were each of them returned conclus On Saturday the 13 th day of March the Bill touching the Town of Southampton was read secunda vice commissa ad ingrossand The Bill touching the Boyers of Westminster was read prima secunda vice commissa ad ingrossandum The Bill also for Confirmation of divers Liberties granted by Letters Patents to the City of Exeter was read tertiâ vice And a Proviso added thereunto by the Lords being read prima secunda tertia vice the Bill was concluded Commun omnium procerum assensu On Monday the 15 th day of March Seven Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill that the Hospital of St. Katherines near the Tower of London shall be a Parish Church and for the erecting of a School was read primâ vice and committed to the Bishop of London Quod nota For Bills are not usually committed until the second reading vide tamen consimile on Tuesday the 26 th day of January foregoing The fourth also being the Bill for the Enrolment of Bargains and Sales in the Queens Majesties Courts of Record in Lancaster Chester and Durham was read tertiâ vice commissa Servienti Carus Attornato Dominae Reginae unà cum Bill Civitat Exon. in Domum Communem deferend Five Bills were brought up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being the Bill for the Restitution in Blood of Sir Ralph Chamberlaine Knight and John Harleston Esq And the Bill for Restitution in Blood of Anne Thomas Daughter and Heir of William Thomas Esq were each of them returned conclus On Tuesday 16. day of March the Bill for the relief of the Poor The Bill for uniting of Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate The Bill for the Boyers of London Westminster and Southwark And the Bill for the Confirmation of a Grant made by Letters Patents to the Town of Southampton touching the bringing of Malmesies and Sweet Wines by Merchant Strangers were each of them read tertiâ vice conclusae The Bill for the Assurance of the Queens Majesties Power over all States and Subjects within her Dominions which had been before here passed and concluded in the Upper House and sent down by them to the House of Commons and from the Commons sent back again to the Lords with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto The said Bill needed no new reading but the said Provisoes and Amendments which had been added since it had passed the Upper House were now read primâ secundâ tertiâ vice all at once and so passed The Bills for Southampton and the Boyers of Westminster were sent down to the House of Commons by M r Sollicitor and D r Yale and from thence were returned two other Bills which had passed the Upper House the one for sundry politick Constitutions for the encrease of the Navy and the other for the Restitution in Blood of William West On Wednesday the 17 th day of March the Bill for Assignment for the Queens Houshold was read tertiâ vice and with the Bill for uniting of Churches in Towns Corporate and for relief of the Poor was sent from the Lords to the House of Commons The Bill for allowance to be made to the Sheriffs being called for the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal declared to the Lords that the Queen would her self take Order therein which her pleasure and determination she willed him to signifie unto them on her behalf On Thursday the 18. day of March Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the fourth being the Bill against Filing Washing and Clipping of Coins was read the second time and committed to be ingrossed The Bill concerning Viscount Bindon and the Bill for Tillage were Ordered this day to be ingrossed On Saturday the 20. day of March the Bill touching peculiar Jurisdictions was upon the second reading committed
now credibly informed to this House by John Aldrich Gentleman one of the Citizens returned for the City of Norwich and also by Sir Roger Woodhouse Knight one of the Knights for the said County of Norff. and also by Edward Grimstone Esquire one of the Burgesses for the Town of Ipswich in the County of Suff. that the said Thomas Beamont is impotent and incurably sick and diseased it was at the earnest motion of the said John Aldrich made to this House for another Citizen to be chosen and returned for the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont Ordered and resolved by this House that a Warrant be made forthwith by this House to the Clerk of the Crown-Office in the Chancery for the directing of a new Writ for the chusing and returning of another Citizen of the said City of Norwich in the place and stead of the said Thomas Beamont accordingly And for as much as Hugh Graves one of the Citizens for the City of York did the last former Session of this present Parliament move the House and make request that by Order of this House another Citizen might be chosen and returned for the said City of York in lieu and stead of Gregory Peacocke his fellow Citizen being then and yet still incurably sick and diseased and for that also that Robert Askewith is already returned and hath attended this present Session in the room and place of the said Gregory Peacocke it was now Ordered and resolved by this House that the said Robert shall stand and remain still as a Citizen for the said City of York in the lieu and place of the said Gregory Peacocke according to the return thereof made The Bill for the Lord Zouch was after sundry Motions and Arguments put to the Question and dashed It was also upon further consideration of the said returns and defaults Ordered and resolved That Thomas Fleming Gentleman being returned into this Session and appearing in the place of James Dalton one of the Burgesses for Kingstone upon Hull in the County of York being incurably sick and diseased shall stand and continue according to the return in that behalf already made And that John Fawcher likewise returned a Burgess for the said Town of Kingston upon Hull in the lieu and stead of James Clerkson sick and Samuel Cox Esquire returned a Burgess for the City of Rochester in the County of Kent in the room and place of William Partridge Esquire being sick Sir William Drury Knight returned a Burgess for Castle Riseing in the County of Norff. in the room and place of Edward Flowerdewe Esq being sick Richard Mollineux Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Wigan in the County of Lancaster in the room and place of Edward Fitton Esquire being in the Queens Majesties Service Fulke Grevill Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Southampton in the room and place of Sir Henry Wallop Knight being in the Queens Majesties Service and Richard Herbert Esquire returned a Burgess for the Town of Montgomery in the room and place of Rowland Pugh Esquire supposed to be dead but yet known to be in plain life shall be forthwith amoved from their said places and the said James Clerkson Edward Flowerdew Esquire Edward Fitton Esquire William Partridge Esquire Sir Henry Wallop Knight and Rowland Pugh Esq and every of them shall stand and continue for their said several rooms and places notwithstanding any such causes of sickness the Queens Majesties Service or supposed allegation of being dead Vide Januar 19. Januar. 21. antea And it is also further agreed upon and resolved by this House That during the time of sitting of this Court there do not any time any Writ go out for the chusing or returning of any Knight Citizen Burgess or Baron without the Warrant of this House first directed for the same to the Clerk of the Crown according to the ancient Jurisdiction and Authority of this House in that behalf accustomed and used Nota. This resolution of the House is no other than had been formerly taken by them in the beginning of this Parliament upon Saturday the 21 th day of January foregoing which also was further ratified and confirmed by the opinion and judgment of Sir Thomas Bromley Knight at this time Lord Chancellor of England M r Doctor Gibbon and M r Doctor Clerk did bring word from the Lords that their Lordships did desire present Conference with ten of this House or more touching the Bill lately passed in this House concerning Iron-Mills Whereupon were appointed M r Comptroller M r Treasurer of the Chamber Sir Thomas Shirley Sir William Moore Sir Thomas Sampoole M r Recorder of London M r Norton M r Cowper M r Aldersey M r Gaymes and M r Leife The Bill against certain deceitful stuff used in the dying of Cloths was sent up to the Lords by M r Comptroller and the said Committees and the provision passed and assented unto and amended according to the request of their Lordships The Bill for maintenance of Mariners and of the Navigation all the Amendments Provisions and Additions being three times read was passed upon the Question Where by a former Order of this House Arthur Hall Esquire was committed Prisoner to the Tower of London there to remain by the space of six Months and so much longer as until himself should willingly make a general revocation or retractation under his hand in writing of certain Errors and slanders contained in a certain Book set forth in print and published in part greatly tending to the slander and reproach of Sir Robert Bell Knight deceased late Speaker of this present Parliament and of sundry other particular Members of this House and also of the Power Antiquity and Authority of this House to the satisfaction of this House or of such Order as this House should take for the same during the continuance of this present Session of Parliament as by the same Order made and set down by this House upon Tuesday being the 14 th day of February foregoing in this present Session of Parliament more at large doth and may appear And where also the said Arthur Hall hath ever since the said Order taken remained in the said Prison of the Tower and yet still doth and hath not at all made any revocation or retractation of the said slanders errors and untruths to the satisfaction of this said House according to the said Order It is now therefore Ordered and resolved by this House That the further allowance of such revocation or retractation to be hereafter made as aforesaid shall be referred unto the Right Honourable Sir Francis Knolles K t one of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Treasurer of her Highness most Honourable Houshold Sir James Crofte Knight one other of her Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council and Comptroller of her Majesties said most Honourable Houshold Sir Christopher Hatton Knight one other of her Highness said most Honourable
Friday the 11 th day of this instant November foregoing delivered some particular informations to Mr. Chancellor and a Licence with a Blank to M r Speaker Vide concerning this matter on Wednesday the 16 th day of this Instant November foregoing M r Winch one of the Committees in the Bill to keep Horses from stealing who were appointed on Wednesday the 16 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed the meeting of the Committees and some Amendments in divers parts of the Bill and so delivereth in the Bill with some Amendments and the Bill was re-delivered unto him again to be further considered of by the Committees and the Committees names were read and thereupon were appointed to meet again at two of the Clock in the Afternoon of this present day in the Middle-Temple Hall M r Bourcher moved the House touching the discovery of the Counsel of the same by some Member thereof as it should seem for his said motion is set down very briefly and imperfectly in the Original Journal-Book of the said House neither is there any other issue of it there inserted than that Sir Edward Hobbie moved to have the matter proceeded to further Examination and the Party to be named Sir John Fortescue Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in the Articles for the three Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths with the manners and days of Payments which being read unto the House and well liked of were presently delivered to Mr. Sollicitor to draw the Book Vide December the seventh Wednesday postea On Tuesday the 22 d day of November the Bill for the necessary habitation and relief of the Poor Aged Lame and Blind in every Parish was read the second time and committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars who were appointed on Saturday the 19 th day of this Instant November foregoing The Bill for relief of Hospitals poor Prisoners and others impoverished by casual losses was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues c. Vide Committees names pag. seq The Bill for Supply of Relief unto the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the said former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues c. The Bill for setting the Poor on work was read the second time and dashed upon the third question for the Committee and rejected upon the question for ingrossing The Bill for petite Forfeitures to go to the relief of the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees in the Bill for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars Sir Edward Hobby moved the House for priviledge for Sir John Tracie being a Member of this House and now presently at the Common Pleas to be put on a Jury Whereupon the Serjeant of this House was presently sent with the Mace to call the said Sir John Tracie to his attendance in this House which was thereupon so done accordingly and the said Sir John then returned to this House The Bill for the better relief of Souldiers and Mariners was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars who were appointed on Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing and Mr. Arnold was added unto them The Bill for the better governing of Hospitals and Lands given to the relief of the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars and Mr. Hubbard was added unto them The Bill for Hospitality was read the second time and dashed upon the questions for committing and ingrossing The Bill for the relief of the Poor out of Impropriations and other Church Livings was read the second time And after some Speeches both with the Bill and against the Bill upon the doubtfulness of the double question for the committing was upon the division of the House rejected with the difference of twenty nine Voices viz. with the Yea a hundred and seventeen and with the No a hundred forty six The Bill for levying of certain sums of money due to the Poor was upon the second reading committed unto the former Committees for erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and Sturdy Beggars And the Bill for extirpation of Beggery was committed to the same Committees And then were the said eleven Bills concerning the relief of the Poor and the punishment of idle and sturdy Beggars delivered to Sir Robert Wroth together with the names of the Committees whose names being for the most part omitted upon the said Saturday the 19 th day of this instant November foregoing when the said first Bill touching the erecting of Houses of Correction and punishment of Rogues and sturdy Beggars was first committed unto them are here all expresly named with such as were added unto them Now in respect that nine other Bills were this present Tuesday referr'd likewise to them as Committees to consider of them being a thing scarce to be pattern'd that one and the same Committee had at one and the same time eleven Bills in agitation before them though all upon the matter tending to a like end and purpose the said Committees were as followeth viz. Mr. George Moore Masters Attorneys of the Dutchy and Court of Wards Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Thomas Philips Sir Thomas Cecill Sir William Moore Sir Robert Wroth Mr. Edward Philips Mr. Recorder of London Sir Thomas Maunsell All the Readers of the Houses of Court Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Finch Mr. Colbrond Mr. Edmund Boyer Mr. Edward Leukenor Mr. Henry Warner Mr. John Boyer Mr. Rosse Mr. Whalley Sir William Cornwallis Mr. Lea Mr. Hext Mr. Richard Mills Mr. Thomas Smith Mr. Lea of Lincolns-Inn All the Serjeants at Law Mr. James Harrington Mr. Wingfield Sir Thomas Hobbie Sir Anthony Cope Mr. Mark Steward Mr. Henry Yelverton Mr. William Coke Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Fettiplace Mr. Winch Mr. Hide All the Knights of Shires the Burgesses of Hull Mr. John Hare Mr. Coleman Mr. Hugh Biston All Citizens of Cities and Mr. Tasborough to which Committees this present Tuesday also were added Mr. Arnold and Mr. Hubbard Sir Edward Hobbie one of the Committees in the Bill against Counterfeiting of the hands of the Lords who were appointed on Saturday the 12 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed their meeting yesterday and complaining that albeit Yesterday last in the Afternoon was appointed for their meeting and the Committees names with the time and place read yesterday in the House none except Mr. Comptroller Mr. Chancellor himself and one other more of the said Committees came to the said Committee so that nothing was done therein And so the names of the said Committees being eftsoons now read by the Clerk the
and thereupon the Oath being taken by him before M r Chancellor of the Exchequer the said Richard Hutton came into this House and took his place in the same accordingly Sir John Hart one of the Knights returned for the City of London putting the House in remembrance once of a Report lately made by some of the Committees of this House touching a Speech lately delivered by some of the Committees of the Lords touching the late Assessment of the late double Subsidy amongst others in the City of London alledging that in London there was none Assessed at above two hundred pounds and not past four such nor yet past eight at one hundred pounds shewed that the Honorable person that delivered the said Speech to the said Committees of this House had not been rightly informed in that matter And shewed further that in very deed at the last Assessment of the Subsidy within the said City of London there were two and thirty persons taxed at two hundred pounds and upwards whereof some at two hundred and twenty and some at two hundred and fifty pounds And one hundred forty and eight persons at one hundred pounds and upward whereof some at one hundred and ten some at one hundred and twenty some at one hundred and forty some at one hundred and fifty some at one hundred and sixty and some at one hundred and eighty pounds And eighty persons at three hundred pounds and some at three hundred and fifty pounds and four persons at four hundred pounds Besides sive hundred forty and four persons at fifty pounds and upwards whereof some at sixty some at seventy some at eighty and some at ninety pounds The Bill concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London was upon the second reading committed unto M r Hubbert M r Heale Sir Henry Knivet M r Wroth and others who were appointed to meet in this House upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon On Saturday the 10 th day of March M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill against the stealing of Oxen Sheep and Lambs shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in the same Bill have met together and added some amendments to the same Bill and offereth both the Bill and amendments to the House Which amendments being inserted into the Bill by the Clerk of this House and the same amendments then also twice read the Bill upon the question was ordered to be Ingrossed The Bill for relief of Jurors upon Tryals between party and party was upon the second reading committed unto M r Tasborough M r Recorder of London M r Wroth and others and the Bill was delivered to M r Tasborough who with the rest was appointed to meet this day at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents unto the Mayor Sheriff Citizens and Commonalty of the City of Lincoln was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Francis Hastings M r Recorder of London and others who were appointed to meet upon Monday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer-Chamber Mr. Chancellour of the Exchequer reporteth the travel of himself and the residue of the Committees for setting down of Articles for the Subsidy and shewed that they have drawn the said Articles and offereth the same to the House to be read Which being then read by the Clerk of the House and in some part thereof reformed by the assent of the whole House to wit in that Article which concerned the priviledge of the Cinque-Ports and that Article also which concerned such persons as in regard of having several habitations should be Assessed in the said Subsidies in several places upon the doubtfulness of the voices to the question twice propounded Whether the strangers resident in the Cinque-Ports shall be charged with the payment of the said Subsidies or not it was upon the division of the House adjudged that they shall not be charged with the said payments by the difference of thirty persons viz. with the Yea a hundred and eighteen and with the No a hundred forty eight in all two hundred sixty six And afterwards it was Ordered that the said Articles should be delivered to the former Committees for the Preamble to prepare the same And also the said Rates according to the said Articles to be set down in the Bill Nota That after this business touching the Cinque-Ports there followeth a Motion made by M r Wroth touching some Members of the House who had been Imprisoned in the beginning of this Parliament of which see on Sunday the 25 th day of February foregoing which remaineth very legible in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons although it be crossed out The reason of which said crossing out is very hard to conjecture in regard that the said Motion was doubtless made this Morning as doth plainly appear also by the often before-cited Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal out of which it is supplied in manner and form following M r Wroth made a Motion that in respect that some Countries might complain of the Tax of these many Subsidies their Knights and Burgesses never consenting unto them nor being present at the grant And because an Instrument taking away some of its strings cannot give its pleasant sound Therefore desired that we might be humble and earnest Suitors to her Majesty that she would be pleased to set at liberty those Members of the House that were restrained To this was Answered by all the Privy Councellors that her Majesty had Committed them for Causes best known to her self and for us to press her Majesty with this Suit we should but hinder them whose good we seek And it is not to be doubted but her Majesty of her gracious disposition will shortly of her self yield to them that which we would ask for them and it will like her better to have it left unto her self than sought by us Thus far out of the said Anonymous Journal and the residue of this days Passages do follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being against Counterfeiting of Councellors or Principal Officers hands was upon the second reading committed unto Sir John Wolley Sir Walter Raleigh M r George Moore and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall Sir Walter Harecourt K t one of the Knights for the County of Suffolk in regard of the present extremity of his Wifes Sickness is licensed by M r Speaker to depart home into his Country James Goodwyn Gent ' one of the Burgesses returned for the City of Wells in the County of Somerset is for his necessary businesses licensed by
7 th day Friday the 9 th day and Saturday the 10 th day Tuesday the 13 th day Friday the 16 th day and Monday the 19 th day of this instant March foregoing This day the House was called and those Members of this House which were then present and did appear did pay into the hands of M r Robert Wroth and M r Warren Esquires their Charitable Contributions to the Relief of the poor in such proportion as had been agreed upon on Monday the 19 th day of this instant March foregoing viz. every Privy Councellor of the House 30. shillings every Knight in degree and every one returned a Knight of a Shire though not of that degree and every Serjeant at Law or Doctor of Law because I suppose they are in some respects accounted equal to Knights twenty shillings and every Borough of the Cinque Ports and every Burgess of the House five shillings There was also gven by every Member of the House twelve pence a piece to the Serjeant of the said House for his Attendance and for the Charges of a Clock set up by him for the use of the House There is also one passage of this day more set down in the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal which is omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self being as follweth A poor Burgess of the House refused to pay his said Contribution of five shillings would only pay two shillings six pence whereupon the Speaker would have Committed him for disobeying the Order of the said House but most of the Members of the same were against it and so he escaped Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal The passages of the next day following are in part inserted out of the Original Journal-Book it self On Friday the 23 th day of March Two Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill concerning Woollen Cloaths and Kerseyes made in the County of Devon out of Cities Towns Corporate and Market Towns was upon the second reading committed unto Sir William Moore all the Knights and Burgesses of Norfolk York Surrey Kent Somerset Devon and Cornwall M r Serjeant Harris and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir William Moore who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in this House M r Attorney of the Dutchy one of the Committees in the Bill for M r Anthony Cook shewed that he and the residue of the Committees in that Bill appointed on Friday 16 th day of this instant March foregoing have met and had Conference together and that for sundry respects then opened by him to the House they thought good to frame a new Bill And so offered the same new Bill praying it might be read M r Tasborough one of the Committees in the Bill for relief of Jurors appearing upon Tryals bringeth in the old Bill with some Amendments and prayeth that the same Amendments may be allowed of by the House hereupon they were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed but the Bill remained without any further course or question at that time M r Serjeant Harris one of the Committees in the Bill for M r Ognall which had been appointed on Friday the 16 th day of this instant March foregoing offereth a Report of the travel of some of the Committees but it was upon a Counter-Motion made by ..... And so it leaves imperfectly but it should seem upon the said Counter-Motion made by some other Member of the House the said Report offered to be made by Serjeant Harris was for this time put by The Bill for Explanation and Confirmation of her Majesties Title to the Lands late Sir Francis Englefield's Knight Attainted of High Treason was upon the second reading committed unto all the Privy-Council M r Attorney of the Dutchy M r Nathanael Bacon and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber M r Finch one of the Committees in the Bill for the Lord Burgavenny which had been appointed on Thursday the 20 th day of this instant March foregoing shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have met and considered of the parts of the said Bill and find some defects in the same chiefly in matter of form and offered such Amendments unto the House as they thought fit and prayed the same to be read which being read by the Clerk it was Ordered by the House that those Amendments should be added to the said Bill in a Schedule After which Report made by M r Finch it should seem that there followed further dispute this day touching that weighty business of Aliens retailing of Foreign Wares which being wholly omitted in the Original Journal-Book it self is therefore inserted out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned in the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Palmer Burgess for London delivered the Bill for retailing and signfied that the Committees could not agree upon it so desired that it would be considered by the House what is fit in their opinions to be done But the said M r Palmer was none of the said Committees The Speaker was thereupon ready to put it unto the Question whether the Bill should be ingrossed but the House would not have it so suddenly put to the Question M r Palmer proceeded and said That the Strangers of late are grown to so great a number that they being but forty open Retaylors have undone since the last Parliament sixty at least of our English Retaylors for so many are now Beggars that were forty pound Subsidy in the Queens Book Their retailing hath inhanced the price of all Wares such as they retail for when they retailed not but our English used the sale of fine Lawnes Hollands and Cambricks they were better cheap by fifteen pound in an hundred The Retailors here are but Factors to such as are Merchants beyond the Seas so they are both Merchants and Factors a thing which if we should use beyond the Seas the Law would be fiery to us or fire should be our Law if we withstood And those places where we trade with our Cloth should we retail it also we should so inhaunce the price that they would not be very glad of our Traffick But this mischief is suffered amongst us by the Dutch It is to be proved that there were twenty Retaylors in London that passed ten or twelve thousand pound a piece in a year and this twenty thousand pound a year at the least the Strangers carry out of the Realm for of our Commodities they esteem nothing Where it was said the other day our Merchants did carry our Coin out of the Realm there is a restraint now that none shall do it And it is to be shewed that the Merchants do Weekly bring in twelve or fifteen hundred pound and sometimes
Order After which ended and her Majesties Assent thereunto then the Dissolution of the Parliament followed by the Lord Keeper which is entred in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House in these words following viz. Dominus Custos magni Sigilli ex mandato Dominae Reginae Dissolvit hoc praesens Parliamentum THE JOURNAL OF THE House of COMMONS A Journal of the Passages of the House of Commons in the Parliament holden at Westminster Anno 43 Reginae Eliz. Anno Domini 1601. which began there on Tuesday the 27 th Day of October and then and there continued until the Dissolution thereof on Saturday the 19 th Day of December ensuing Anno 44 Reginae ejusdem THIS large and copious Journal containeth in it not only a number of excellent Passages concerning the Orders and Priviledge of the House of Commons which are usually found in other Journals of the same House but also much matter touching the publick State and that great grievance of the Realm by reason of Patents of Priviledge or Monopolies in the abdication or censure of which her Majesty most graciously concurr'd with her Subjects In which also a great number of Speeches and other Passages which were not found in the Original Journal-Book of the said House are supplied out of a Journal of the same House taken at this Parliament by one of the Members thereof But yet to avoid confusion whatsoever is here inserted out of the said private Journal is particularly distinguished from that which is taken out of the above-mentioned Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons by some Animadversion or expression thereof both before and after the inserting of it The tenth Parliament of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth by the Grace of God of England France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith c. begun at Westminster upon Tuesday being the 27 th day of October in the forty third year of her Majesties Reign upon which day many of the Knights for the Shires Citizens for Cities Burgesses for Boroughs and Barons for Ports returned into the same Parliament did make their appearance at Westminster aforesaid before the Right Honourable the Earl of Nottingham Lord Admiral and Lord Steward of her Highnesses most Honourable Houshold and did then and there take the Oath according to the Statute in that behalf made and provided tendred by the said Earl or by his Deputies who were Sir William Knolls Comptroller of her Majesties Houshold Sir John Stanhop her Highness Vice-Chamberlain Sir Robert Cecill Principal Secretary and John Herbert Esq second Secretary After which all the said Lord Steward's Deputies and some others of the House of Commons having gotten into the Upper House and her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set the greatest part of the residue of the Members of the said House of Commons had notice thereof about four of the Clock in the Afternoon being at that time still suting in the said House and expecting her Majesties Pleasure to be sent for up unto the said Upper House according to the antient usage and custom of former Parliaments And thereupon the said residue repaired immediately unto the Door of the said House but could not be let in the Door being still kept shut and so returned back again unto their own House much discontented Shortly after which time the Right Honourable Sir William Knolls one of the Deputies aforesaid came down into the said House of Commons and so being there set with the said residue for some little space of time M r Richard Lieffe one of the Barons returned into this present Parliament for the Port of Hastings in the County of Sussex stood up and shewing unto the said Comptroller the wrong done unto the greatest part of the Members of this House in their not being suffered to come into the said Upper House to hear her Majesties Pleasure signified by the Mouth of the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England humbly desired the said Comptroller to be a means that the effect thereof might be imparted unto some of the Members of this House for their better satisfactions Which as his Honour did think very reasonable and meet to be done at convenient time so did he impute the said fault wholly to the Gentleman-Usher of the said Upper House Which done and the residue of the said Deputies being shortly after come into the said House of Commons and there sitting the said M r Comptroller after some pause stood up and shewing unto this House that his place was to break the silence of this House for that time and putting the House in mind to make Choice of a Speaker according to her Majesties Pleasure given unto them in that behalf shewed that in his opinion he thinketh M r John Crooke Recorder of London returned one of the Knights for the City of London into this present Parliament to be a very fit able and sufficient Man to supply the whole Charge of the said Office of Speaker being a Gentleman very Religious very Judicious of a good Conscience and well furnished with all other good parts yet leaveth nevertheless the further consideration thereof to this House and so did sit again Which done and no one contrary Voice at all being delivered the said M r Crooke after some large Pause first taken stood up and very Learnedly and Eloquently endeavoured to disable himself at large for the burthen of that charge alledging his great defects both of Nature and of Art fit to supply that place and shewing all full Complements for the same to abound in many other Learned and grave Members of this House in the end prayed most humbly that they would accept of his due excuse and be pleased to proceed to a new Election and did then sit down again Whereupon the said M r Comptroller did stand up and said that hearing no negative Voice he took it for a due Election and demanding the further opinion of this House therein they all Answered Yea and gave their Assents Whereupon the said M r Comptroller and the Right Honourable Sir John Stanhop her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain immediately went to the said M r John Crooke and did set him in the Chair which done the said M r Crooke after some little pause did stand up and yielding unto this whole House most humble thanks for their great good opinion of him and loving favour towards him and praying them to accept of his willing mind and readiness and to bear with his unableness and wants in the service of this House referr'd himself to their good favours And then the said M r Comptroller signified further unto this House that her Majesties Pleasure was that the Members of this House having made choice of their Speaker should present him unto her Highness upon Friday next following in the Afternoon And so then every man departed and went his way On Friday the 30 th day of October about one of the Clock in the Afternoon the Knights Citizens and
that may be levied and the rest Order should be taken for the discharge thereof Michael Poultney Esquire Burgess for Lichfeild Robert Buckstones Burgess for Horsam in Sussex and Henry Green Citizen for the City of Hereford were for their several affairs Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 18 th day of March the Proviso to the Bill of Bowyers was read the third time and passed the House The Bill against phantastical Prophecies The Bill for punishment of Witchcrafts And the Bill against wilful Perjury were each of them read the third time and passed Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the uniting of Churches by the Bishop so that the value be not above 24 l of the Churches united with two others were each of them read the first time On Friday the 19 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill for punishment of Invocations of evil Spirits And the last That Fines or Recoveries with Voucher though the Original be imbezelled shall be good were each of them read the third time and passed the House On Saturday the 20 th day of March the Bill for continuance of Statutes to endure for ever was read the second time and as it should seem committed to M r Clare and others not named And the Bill against Bankrupts being read also the second time was as may be gathered committed to M r Mersh and others not named Vide consimile on Thursday the 21 th day of January foregoing M r Serjeant Carus and M r Sollicitor brought from the Lords the Bill against Washing and Clipping of money The Bill touching Leases made by Viscount Bindon and his Wife with two others Six Bills were sent up to the Lords by M r Vice-Chamberlain of which one was for the punishment of Witchcraft and another touching Fines and Recoveries with Voucher c. with two others of no great moment and immediately the Bill that Clipping or Washing of money shall be Treason The Bill for preservation of Woods in Sussex were each of them read the first time John Gardner Gent. Burgess for Dorchester in Dorset was for his affairs Licensed to be absent Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the Bill for the relief of the poor And the Bill for the uniting of Parish Churches in Cities and Corporate Towns to the value of 24 l were each of them read the second time John Darrington Esq one of the Knights for the County of Huntington is for his affairs Licensed to be absent On Monday the 22 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of Monies shall be Treason was read the second time but not committed nor ingrossed because it had been formerly sent from the Lords It was Ordered that William Gerrard a necessary Witness for M r Pledal as he saith may be served by the Serjeant to attend Mr. Haddon at the rising of the House one of the Committees with the Master of the Rolls Mr. Recorder and Sir William Arnold and Mr. Norton discharged of this Examination Vide plus on Saturday the 10 th day of April ensuing Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the third being the Bill for the paving of Kentish-street was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed John Dorrington Esq Knight for Huntington Humphrey Quarnby Burgess for Nottingham William Dawtrye Knight for Suffex Simon Thellwall Knight for Denbigh for their several necessary affairs were Licensed to be absent Three Bills lastly had each of them their first reading of which the first was the Bill touching Demurrers in Law On Tuesday the 23 th day of March Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that Clipping and Washing of money shall be Felony was read the third time and passed the House The Bill for encrease of Tillage was brought from the Lords by M r Serjeant Carus Post Meridiem In the Afternoon Six Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill touching Leases to be made by the Lord Thomas Howard Viscount Bindon and his Wife And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands that shall descend were each of them read the second time but no mention is made that they were either Ordered to be ingrossed or referred to Committees because they had been formerly sent from the Lords On Wednesday the 24 th day of March Two Bills had each of them their second reading of which the latter being the Bill for Assignment of forty thousand twenty seven pound four shillings and two pence half penny to the Expences of the Queens Houshold which Bill notwithstanding that it had passed the Upper House and been sent down from the Lords to the House of Commons on Wednesday the 17 th day of this instant March foregoing yet it was committed or at least referred to M r Vice-Chamberlain being an Officer of her Majesties said Houshold to be further considered of and was lastly passed in the House of Commons upon the third reading on Saturday the third day of April ensuing and was then immediately returned back to the Lords by M r Comptroller Two Bills were each of them read the third time of which one being the Bill for Fulling of Caps by foot and hand was dashed upon the Question Morris William Knight for the County of Carnarvon for his weighty affairs was Licensed to be absent On Thursday the 25 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Lord Abergavenny may make Leases for twenty Years or three Lives And the second that Henry Howard Esq shall not discontinue Lands descending to him were each of them read the third time and passed And the third being the Bill for the Annuity of six pound thirteen shillings and four pence out of Wandlesworth in Surrey being the Archbishop of Yorks Lands to the School of Guildford was read the third time but it should seem the House did desire to consider further of this Bill and thereupon passed it not at this time but gave it a fourth reading on Tuesday the 30 th day of this instant March ensuing and then it passed the House Post Meridiem In the Afternoon four Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for payment of Alneagers Fees for Sealing Cloaths in Lancashire was read the second time and Ordered to be ingrossed On Friday the 26 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the last being that the Lord Howard and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife may make Leases c. was read the third time and passed On Saturday the 27 th day of March Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the first being the Bill that the Bible and the
was the Bill for the Incorporation and uniting of Weymouth and Melcomb-Regis in Com. Dorset and the second for the Town of Southampton The Bill touching Licences and Dispensations was committed to the Archbishop of Canterbury and others and to Doctor Lewis and Doctor Huick The Bill lastly for limitation of the Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read secundâ vice commissa ad ingrossandum Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second touching the Limitation of Fees of Councellors and others towards the Law was read tertiâ vice conclusa and sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Vaughan Four Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first was the Bill against Fugitives over the Seas the second for Incorporation of both Universities with a new Proviso added by the House of Commons and certain Amendments which were thrice read and assented unto the third for reviving and continuance of Statutes and the last touching corrupt Presentations The Bill touching severance of Sheriffs of sundry Counties was read the second time but no mention is made that it was either referred to Committees or ordered to be ingrossed in regard it had been sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons on Wednesday the 23 th day of this instant Month of May preceeding of which see a like President on Wednesday the 16 th day of the same Month foregoing The Bill against Fugitives was sent to the House of Commons by Doctor Lewis and Doctor Yale with the latter Proviso put out and all other Amendments Three Bills were brought from the House of Commons the first against Fugitives over the Seas and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Lunae prox horâ nonâ May the 27 th Sunday On Monday the 28 th day of May Four Bills of no great moment had each of them their third reading and passed the House of which the first was the Bill for John Tirrell Esq and the second for the increase of Tillage and maintenance of the Navy Two Bills were sent at several times unto the Lords from the House of Commons of which the first being for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was returned with a new Proviso and certain Amendments added by them of the House of Commons And the second also for the assurance of certain Lands to the Lord Berkeley and the Lady Katherine his Wife was returned with certain Amendments and a Proviso added thereunto Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers Lords meeting the Bill for the bringing in of the River of Lee to the North-side of the City of London was read tertiâ vice with certain Provisoes and Amendments added thereunto by the House of Commons and Assented unto by the Lords Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in diem Crastinum horâ Octavâ On Tuesday the 29 th day of May the Bill touching the Queens Majesties most Gracious General and free Pardon was read primâ vice conclusa Dominus Custos magni Sigilli continuavit praesens Parliamentum usque in horam secundam post Meridiem About which hour the Lord Keeper and divers other Lords Assembling Six Bills were brought from the House of Commons of which the first being for the continuance of the severance of Sheriffs in sundry Counties and the second to make the Lands Goods and Chattels of Tellors c. liable to the payment of their Debts were each of them returned conclusae The Bill of the Queens Majesties general and free Pardon was returned conclusa Note that Robert Bowyer Esq who succeeded Sir Thomas Smith in the place of Clerk of the Upper House in An. 6 Jacobi Regis in his Abridgment of the Journals of the said House during the Queens Reign hath in this place upon the sending up of the aforesaid Bill of Pardon left this Animadversion following viz. It seemeth the Clerks negligence that the sending of this Bill to the Lower House is not set down in the Journal-Book also by entrance of the returning thereof it seemeth that the same was sent single alone by special Messengers and not with the other six Bills Nota also That all the following passages of this Afternoon excepting the entrance only of the Dissolution of the Parliament are all transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons and the Speech of Sir Nicholas Bacon the Lord Keeper was transcribed out of a Copy thereof which I had by me as was also the manner of her Majesties passing the several Acts supplied by my self according to the ordinary use of a former President thereof None of all which passages excepting that only touching the entrance of the Dissolution of the said Parliament are at all found in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House But do now come to be supplied out of those other above-mentioned Manuscript Monuments and in the first place out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following About four of the Clock in the Afternoon the Queens Majestie being sat in her Royal Seat in the Upper House M r Speaker made his Oration presented unto her Majesty the Book of the Subsidy and in the name of the whole House gave her Majesty most humble thanks for her Highness general and free Pardon and prayed her Majesties Royal Assent unto such Acts and Laws as had passed both the Houses in this Session This being thus transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons fol. 39. a. now follows the Answer of Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the Great Seal at large which he made unto the Speakers Speech being transcribed out of a Copy I had by me M r Speaker The Queens Majesty hath heard and doth very well understand how discreetly and wisely you have declared the Proceedings of this Session in the Nether House for Answer whereof and for the better signification of what her Majesties opinion is both of Parliament men and Parliament matters this is to let you understand her Majesty hath Commanded me to say unto you that like as the greatest number of them of the Lower House have in the proceedings of this Sessions shewed themselves modest discreet and dutiful as becomes good and loving Subjects and meet for the places that they be called unto So there be certain of them although not many in number who in the proceeding of this Session have shewed themselves audacious arrogant and presumptuous calling her Majesties Grants
touching Collectors of Issues by Juries was upon the second reading committed unto Mr. Cromwell Mr. Nathanael Bacon Mr. Henry Barkley and others and the Bill was delivered to the said Mr. Barkley who with the rest was appointed to meet in the Middle-Temple Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Lords did this Morning send down to the House of Commons a Bill touching the assurance of certain Lands to Sir Thomas Lucy Knight and others The business of Mr. Arthur Hall of which the House had been informed upon their first meeting this Morning was before the rising of the House referred to Mr. Wolley Mr. Cromwell Mr. Diggs and Mr. Sandes to peruse the order touching the same against Monday next being the day appointed by the House for the said Mr. Hall to appear before them On Monday the 14 th day of December further day was given unto the Committees for the Bill touching Tanners c. and to meet at the Yeeld-Hall alias Guild-Hall to Morrow at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for Confirmation of Letters Patents granted unto Walter Rawleigh Esquire for the discovery of Foreign Countries was read primâ vice Three Petitions touching the liberty of Godly Preachers and to exercise and continue their Ministries and also for the speedy supply of able and sufficient men into divers places now destitute and void of the ordinary means of Salvation were offered unto the House the first by Sir Thomas Lucy the second by Sir Edward Dymock and the third by Mr. Gates which were all thereupon read and further proceedings therein deferred until a more convenient time Vide concerning this matter on Monday the 22 th day of February following and more largely on Thursday the 25 th day of February ensuing Which notwithstanding Doctor Turner a little after rose up and put the House in remembrance of a Bill and Book heretofore offered by him unto the said House which had been digested and framed by certain Godly and Learned Ministers and which said Bill and Book did tend to no other end as he conceived than the Glory of God the Safety of her Majesty and the benefit of the Common-Wealth and therefore prayed that it might be read Against which Sir Francis Knolles Knight Treasurer of her Majesties Houshold spake first but in few words and after him Sir Christopher Hatton Knight her Majesties Vice-Chamberlain more largely who pressed and moved the House so far therein that it was at length resolved that the said Book and Bill should not be read But touching all necessary and fit liberty of the aforesaid Ministers or supply of able men in places that wanted they did not doubt but that her Majesty would take some speedy order concerning the same according to whatsoever was justly required either in the aforesaid Petitions that had been read or in the last mentioned Book and Bill the reading whereof had been forborn of which also the said Mr. Vice-Chamberlain did affirm that he doubted not but that it would be done accordingly Vide concerning this business on Saturday the 27 th day of March following He also further moved that for the better and more speedy expedition of other great matters now in hand this Court would be pleased to appoint to sit again at two of the Clock this Afternoon to give reading to a Bill but now lately finished wherein provision was made for the safety and preservation of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person Which he the rather desired because he conceived that this House would very shortly be adjourned till after Christmas The Bill against fraudulent Conveyances was read the third time Post Meridiem In the Afternoon the before-mentioned Bill for provision to be made for safety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the quiet State of the Realm was read the first time The Bill also for provision of maintenance for Ministers and Preachers in Towns Corporate c. was after the second reading and much dispute put to the question whether it should be committed and upon the division of the House the major part of the Voices fell out to be against the commitment After which also upon another Question whether it should be ingrossed or no the Bill it self was lastly upon another division of the House dashed The Bill lastly for Confirmation of Letters Patents made unto M r Walter Rawleigh was read the second time and committed unto M r Vice-Chamberlain M r Secretary Sir Philip Sidney Sir Francis Drake Sir Richard Greensield Sir William Courtnay Sir William Mohun and others On Tuesday the 15 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the first being for the relief of the Creditors of Edward Fisher Esquire was after the second reading committed unto M r Sollicitor M r Morrice M r Cromwell M r John Fisher and M r Cradock who were appointed to meet at two of the Clock this Afternoon in Lincolns-Inn-Hall The Committees for M r Rawleighs Bill were appointed to meet presently in the Committee-Chamber of this House The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster was after the second reading committed unto Sir George Carie M r Recorder of London M r Thomas Knivet M r Thomas Cecill and others who were appointed to meet this Afternoon in the open Exchequer-Court The Bill against Informers was brought in by M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the name of all the Committees with allowance of the same only he further moved the reviving and continuing the former Act in that behalf made in the 18 th year of her Majesties Reign The Bill for provision to be made for the surety of the Queens Majesties most Royal Person and the good estate of the Realm was upon the second reading Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for bringing in of Staple Fish and Ling was brought in again by Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees without any thing done in the same for that the Committees could not in their meeting assent to any alteration of the same Bill The Bill against Jesuits Seminary Priests and such like disobedient persons was upon the second reading ordered to be ingrossed On Wednesday the 16 th day of December three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the second being a new one touching Hue and Cry was read the first time M r Ash one of the Committees in the Bill for Swearing of Under-Sheriffs in the name of himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill framed by them praying the reading thereof M r Treasurer one of the Committees in the Bill for disposing of Parsonages impropriate to charitable and pious uses for himself and the residue of the same Committees brought in the old Bill and also a new Bill praying the reading thereof The Bill for perfecting of Assurances was upon the second reading committed unto M r
also that he thought their Lordships could likewise help the same again with some Amendment to the Amendments of this House in the same Bill to be sent down hither and assented unto by this House On Thursday the 25 th day of March Thomas Patrick being brought to the Bar for serving a Subpoena upon M r Cook a Member of this House during the time of this present Session of Parliament in the behalf and at the Suit of Margery Dike was ordered upon his Submission to deliver a Copy of the Bill to M r Cook gratis to give him Twenty Shillings for the Charge of his answer and to pay the Serjeants Fees Roger Vanconge a Dutchman and Merchant Stanger being this day brought by the Serjeant to the Bar for Arresting of John Werrall Servant unto Thomas Powell Esq a Member of this House for Debt and carrying him into the Counter of Woodstreet in London And the said John Werrall being also brought to this House it was after several Examinations had by this House as well of the said Roger Vanconge as of the said John Werrall at last after many long Motions and Arguments upon the circumstances falling out in the said Examinations resolved after the doubtfulness of the greater Number of Voices upon the Question by the Division of the House That the said John Werrall should not have priviledge of this House but should first openly in the House take Oath against the Supremacy of the Bishop of Rome and then be remanded to the said Prison of the Counter again in state as he was before which was so done accordingly for that it did manifestly appear unto this House as well by the Confession of the same Werrall as also by the confession and by a Letter of his own subscribed with his own hand and so confessed by himself directed to one Dakings that fraudulently and Covenously he procured himself to be received into the Service of the said M r Powell this Parliament time to escape from Arrests to the delaying and defeating of his Creditors upon which dividing of the House there were with the Yea or I eighty five Voices and with the No but sixty nine M r Vice-Chamberlain one of the Committees in the Bill touching Wards and Liveries brought in the Bill again with some Amendments and referred the same Amendments to the further reading of the Bill which Bill was then read accordingly and the Amendments twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be Ingrossed M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill touching draining of Fenns brought in the Bill again as a Bill thought good by the same Committees to be reserved till the next Parliament and to be left in the House for that purpose On Friday the 26 th day of March the Amendments and Additions in the Bill for preservation of Woods near unto the Town of Crambrook in the County of Kent was upon the second reading Ordered to be committed again to the former Committees The Bill for naturalizing of certain English mens Children born beyond the Seas was upon the third reading passed M r Wroth one of the Committees in the Bill for the increase of Pheasants and Partridges brought in the Bill again with some Amendments and the same Amendments being twice read the Bill was again after sundry speeches and Arguments committed to the former Committeees M r Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle did bring from the Lords two Bills of which one was the Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster M r Chancellor of the Exchequer one of the Committees in the Bill for the true payment of the Debts of Philip Bassett Esquire brought in the Bill again as a Bill agreed by them to be reserved until the next Parliament Six Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading and were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons of which one was the Bill with the Amendments for the keeping of the County Court at Morpeth and the Town of Alnwick in the County of Northumberland and another Bill being for the safe keeping of obstinate Recusants Armour was sent back again unto the said House from their Lordships who gave it presently three readings by Serjeant Rodes and M r Powle The Bill touching Wardships and Liveries was read the third time and dashed upon the question there being but seventy five Voices for it and ninety five against it The Bill for the good Government of the City of Westminster with the Amendments according to the last Additions was sent up to the Lords by M r Treasurer and others M r William Stoughton one of the Committees in the Bill against Excessive Fees and taxations in the Eclesiastical Courts brought in the Bill again On Saturday the 27 th day of March after the Letany was read and the prayers ended Mr. Speaker signified unto the House that her Majesties Commandment was that this House do not sit this present day but do assemble here again on Monday next in the Forenoon at which time they shall then know her Majesties further pleasure On Monday the 29 th day of March M r Serjeant Rodes and Mr. Doctor Barkeley did bring from the Lords the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis in the County of Dorset with some Amendments The Bill for increase of Pheasants and Partridges was twice read and the Amendments thereof thrice and then it was put to the Question whether or no the said Bill with the Amendments should pass And it was found that there were one hundred and thirteen Voices for the passing of the Bill and but seventy five against it The Amendments and Schedule in the Bill for the maintenance of the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis were thrice read and so passed accordingly upon the Question The Amendments also in the Bill for the safe keeping of the Armour of obstinate Recusants were thrice read and passed upon the Question Post Meridiem Three Bills of no great moment were sent up to the Lords from the House of Commons by Mr. Treasurer and others of which the first was the Bill touching the Armour of obstinate Recusants and is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House but the other two touching Pheasants and Partridges with their Amendments and touching the Pier and Cobb of Lime Regis are there set down to have been sent up as aforesaid M r Serjeant Gawdy and M r Serjeant Rodes did bring down from the Lords to the House of Commons the Bill of Subsidy which is omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the Upper House and the Bill for her Majesties Gracious general and free Pardon which being once read passed upon the Question accordingly Her Majesty with divers of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal being set in the Upper House about ..... of the Clock this Afternoon the Knights Citizens and Burgesses of the House of Commons had notice thereof and thereupon repaired thither with
Mr. Speaker to depart home It should seem by these two words viz. Non sol set in the Margent over against the names of these two last mentioned members of the House that the said Members did not leave any money with the Serjeant of the House to be distributed amongst the poor at their departure Which I conceive is here noted because two others that departed at this time also into the Country upon like occasions did either of them leave money with the said Serjeant to be so distributed as now immediately followeth Giles Hutchins Gent ' returned a Citizen into this present Parliament for the City of New Sar. is licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart upon his necessary occasion by reason of the extream Sickness of Mr. William Blaker and the said Mr. Hutchins left with the Serjeant of this House two shillings and four pence to be distributed amongst the poor John Cotten Esquire one of the Knights returned into this present Parliament for the County of Cambridge is in respect of the present Sickness of Sir John Cotten Knight Father of the said John Cotten Esquire licensed to depart into his Country for this time And the said Mr. Cotten left with the said Serjeant twelve pence to be given to the poor On Monday the 12 th day of March Mr. Lewes one of the Committees in the Bill concerning salted Fish and salted Herrings shewed that he and the residue of the Committees have taken pains in consideration of the said Bill and have added a Proviso to the said Bill and prayeth the twice reading of the same Proviso and that then the same Proviso and Bill may be Ordered to be ingrossed Whereupon the same Proviso being twice read the said Bill and Proviso after some Speeches both against and with them were upon the question referred to the former Committees who were appointed on Monday the 5 th day of this instant March foregoing to be considered of in the Afternoon of this present day in the Exchequer Chamber The Bills committed for confirmation of Letters Patents to the Mayors Sheriffs Citizens and Commonalty of Lincoln and concerning the lawful deprivation of Edward Bonner late Bishop of London are delivered to Sir Edward Dymock one of the Committees in the same The Bill for reducing of disloyal Subjects to their due Obedience was brought in by the Committees and also a new Bill made for that purpose with prayer that the same Bill may be read But what those alterations were upon which the old Bill was rejected and a new Bill framed are not set down in the Original Journal-Book it self and therefore because it is a matter of no small consequence and may also be of some use I have inserted the particulars thereof out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal which are there set down in manner and form following The particulars of the first Bill exhibited against Recusants 1. THE party so Indicted and Convicted shall forfeit all his Goods and Chattles which he hath in his own right or in the right of his Wife 2. Item He shall forfeit two parts of his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments if he be born under her Highness Allegiance of the Age of sixteen years 3. Item A Feme Covert shall lose her Dower or Jointure which she might have by her Baron 4. Item If a Man match with an Inheritrix being a Recusant he shall lose two parts of those Lands to the Queen Neither of them shall Administrate to any Man 5. Item Such a party being a Recusant shall be disabled to make any purchase or sale of Lands 6. Item He shall be disinabled either to take or make any Lease to the use of himself or to the use of his Wife 7. Item A Recusant shall forfeit for keeping any such Recusant Person in his House either Servant or Stranger ten pound every Month being at one time so long in his House or at several times in the year 8. Item He shall be barred to bear any Office in the Land or to practise as Councellor Doctor Sollicitor Proctor Attorney or Advocate to the Law 9. Item He shall have his Children taken from him if they be above the Age of seven years which are to be disposed of by the Lords of the Council or the Ordinary or the Judges of Assizes for the time being and their maintenance to be raised out of a third part of such a Recusants Living 10. Item He shall be disinabled to make any bargain or sale of any of his Goods or Chattles 11. Item If he be a Copyholder he shall forfeit his Copyhold during his Life whereof two parts is to go to the Queen and the third to the Lord. 12. Item If any person be Indicted for Recusancy of Malice he shall have his remedy against the party at the Common Law 13. Item If any person having been a Recusant shall at any time recant he shall make his submission in the Parish Church where he dwelleth acknowledging the Queens Proceedings to be just and detesting the Church of Rome which he shall also do in open Court before the Judges of Assize 14. Item If any such person after such Recantation fall into relapse he shall lose the benefit of the former Recantation for ever Lastly There is a Proviso that those that have already bought Lands of any that are or shall be Indicted for a Recusant the Bargain shall be as good and stand in effect as if this had never been made This Bill by the aforesaid Committees received all these alterations following whereupon it came in as a new Bill again THE two first Articles altogether omitted being thought too hard The third that the Woman is to lose but two parts of her Jointure or Dower after her Husbands Death The fourth That the Husband not being Recusant is to forfeit no part of his Land for his Wives Recusancy The fifth All Sales made by Recusants since 2 Eliz. of Lands whereof he taketh the profits or which Conveyance is upon any trust and confidence to be void as to the Queen as for two parts of the profits to be answered her and so all Sales hereafter to be made by any Recusant Convicted the Sale being bonâ fide c. The sixth They shall be disinabled to be Justices of Peace Mayors Sheriffs c. The ninth Children being ten years old until they be sixteen years to be disposed of at the appointment of four Privy-Councellors the Justices of Assize the Bishop of the Diocess Justices of Peace If the third part of the Lands suffice not for maintenance the rest to be levyed of the Parents goods The eleventh Recusants that be Copyholders to forfeit two parts to the Lord of the Mannor if the Lord be no Recusant and if he be then to the Queen The thirteenth Protesting that he doth not come under colour of any dispensation or other allowance from the Pope but for Conscience and Religion Thus far
named for that purpose M r Comptroller Sir George Carey Sir George Gifford Sir Thomas Conisby Sir Thomas Cecill Sir Henry Bromley Sir Francis Hastings Sir Edward Hastings M r Thomas Knivet M r George Moore Sir Edward Hobby Sir William Brereton Mr. Leonard Sir John Stacy Sir Henry Norris Mr. Francis Bacon Sir Edmund Carey Sir William Moore Mr. Recorder Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Edmond Boyer Sir Richard Knightley Sir Gervase Clifton the Knights for all Shires Sir Anthony Cope all Deputy Lieutenants of Shires being Members of this House Sir Henry Bamfield Mr. Oglethorp Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Warwick Heyle Sir Henry Nevill Mr. Francis Foscue Sir William Woolgrave Sir William Aire Sir Henry Gawdie Sir Robert Southwell Mr. Lieutenant of the Tower Mr. Henry Finch Mr. Bourchier Mr. Boyes Mr. Attorney of the Dutchy Mr. Attorney of the Wards Mr. John Boyer Mr. Edward Lewkenor Mr. Robert Sackvile Mr. Tasbrough Mr. Francis Goodwyn Mr. Angier Mr. Emersam Mr. John Lees and Mr. Adrian Gilbert and appointed to meet in this House upon Saturday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon and the Committees names were delivered to Mr. Comptroller Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for the due performance of the last Will and Testament of George Durant was upon the second reading committed unto Sir Edward Hobbie Mr. Francis Bacon Mr. Francis Moore Mr. Wimarke Sir Robert Wingfeild Mr. John Wingfeild Mr. Oglethorpe Sir Thomas Cecill and Mr. James Harrington who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Exchequer Court at two of the Clock and the Bill was delivered to Sir Thomas Cecill one of the said Committees Sir Francis Hastings moved for the abridging and reforming the excessive number of superfluous and burthensom penal Laws Which Motion being seconded by Mr. Francis Bacon and others the consideration of the managing thereof was committed unto all the Privy-Council being Members of this House all the Serjeants at Law being likewise Members of this House all the Lawyers of this House Mr. Miles Sandes Mr. Tasbrough Mr. George Moore Mr. Lewkenor Mr. Nathaniel Bacon Mr. George Rotheram Mr. Stephenson Mr. Conisbie Mr. Dykes Mr. Crompton and others and all the Knights for the Counties and for the City of London returned into this House Sir William Moore Sir Edward Hobbie Mr. Heyle Sir Thomas Hobbie and Mr. Hubbard who were appointed to meet in this House upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Mr. Brograve Attorney of the Dutchy one of the Committees for the Examination of matters of priviledge and of Returns whose names see on Saturday the 5 th day of this instant November foregoing shewed that he and sundry others of the Committees had met together about those businesses according to the charge of this House in that behalf imposed upon them and that the other Committees did appoint him to make report unto this House of their travels in this said business And shewed that as concerning the Liberties and Priviledges of the Members of this House they are of opinion that the serving of the Subpoena upon Mr. Thomas Knivet one of the Members of this House signified by himself unto this House on Saturday immediately foregoing is a manifest contempt committed against this whole House to the apparent prejudice of the Liberties and Priviledges of this House as by some Precedents under the Clerk of this House his hand in like former Cases accustomed and shewed further unto the said Committees it did appear in that by reason of such Process served upon any Member of this House the same Member so served with such Process must needs of force be withdrawn from his Service in this House both in his mind and in his person by the meer necessity of following his own private business occasioned by the said Process so served upon him And therefore do resolve that the said Mr. Thomas Knivet ought to be freed from the serving of the said Subpoena And because the said Mr. Knivet affirmed unto the said Committees that the Parties that served the said Subpoena upon him did execute the same in very dutiful and lowly manner and that also the said party being examined by the said Committees did affirm and protest unto them that he did not know the said Mr. Knivet to be a Member of this House when he served him with the said Subpoena the Committees were of Opinion to have the said party remitted without any further punishment to be inflicted upon him for the same if this House should so think good and else not And where one Precedent in Quinto of Queen Mary was shewed unto the said Committees whereby it appeared that a Member of this place at that time being served with a Subpoena out of the Chancery in Parliament time was upon Declaration thereof made unto this House allowed to have the benefit and priviledge of this House and for the due accomplishment thereof this House did then send two Members of the same to the then Lord Chancellor of England requiring his Lordship in the name of this whole House to revoke the said Subpoena as by the same Precedent may appear he shewed that the resolution of the said Committees in this Case for the said Mr. Knivet is that in like manner two of the Members of this House may be sent by the Order of this House in the name of the whole House to the now Lord Keeper to require his Lordship to revoke the said Subpoena served upon thesai d Mr. Knivet if this House shall so think good And further as concerning Returns that he and the residue of the Committees had seen the Return of the Sheriff of the County of Dorset for the electing into this Parliament the Burgesses of the Borough of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis heretofore two distinct Boroughs but of late years united and incorporated into one by her Majesties Letters Patents with ability and priviledge nevertheless to elect four Burgesses into the Parliament as in former times they had used to do when they were distinct Boroughs And that the Mayor Bayliffs Commonalty and Burgesses of Weymouth and Melcomb Regis had upon the Sheriffs Precept directed unto them elected four Burgesses and returned them under the Seal of their Corporation and that the Bayliffs have elected two others besides which four Burgesses are certified into this House from the Clerk of the Crown and are sworn into the same House accordingly but the said other two Burgesses are neither certified nor sworn into this House neither elected by Precept from the said Sheriffs for any thing the said Committees could perceive And that therefore their Opinion was that the said four Burgesses so as aforesaid duly and orderly elected and returned should still continue Members of this House and not the other two so indirectly returned if it shall be so thought good unto this House for that the said two Burgesses if they find themselves aggrieved or injured in the
the Speaker in her Majesties name to the House out of the private Journal M r Speaker said First I am by her Majesties Commission to make Report unto you of that rotable and excellent Speech which her Majesty delivered I shall deliver unto you but a shadow of that substance but I greatly rejoice that so many were there present who are well able to supply to others the true Report of her Majesties Speech It pleased her Majesty to shew in what gracious part she accepted our Loyalties She said she rejoyced not so much to be a Queen as to be a Queen over so thankful a People and that God had made her a means to save us from Shame Tyranny and Oppression She did accept of our intended Present which she said manifested our Love and Loyalty most graciously affirming that she never was any greedy Griper or Fastholder and what we did present she would not hoard it For the thanks which were yielded for her great regard of us she willed me to return her thanks to you most graciously and to tell you that her Heart never inclined to pass any Grant but upon suggestion that it was for the good of the Subjects And now that the contrary hath appeared she took it graciously that the knowledge thereof came from her Subjects She ever set the last Judgment before her Eyes and never thought arose in her but for the good of her People If her Grants were abused to their Hurt against her Will she hoped God would not lay their Culps and offences to her Charge and the principal Members not touched And had it not been for these her good Subjects she had fallen from Lapse into Error Those that did speak she thought spake not out of spleen or displeasure to the Grants but to deliver the grief of their hearts which above any Earthly Pleasure she respected She said she was not allured with the Royal Authority of a King neither did she attribute any thing unto her self but all to the Glory of God She said the Cares and Trouble of a Crown are known only to them that wear it and were it not more for Conscience sake than for any desert or want of disposition in her these Patentees should not escape without condign Punishment She desired not to Reign longer than that her Government and Reign should be for our good She said we well might have a Prince of more wisdom and sufficiency but of more Love and Affection we should never have Her Majesty delivered a Commandment to M r Comptroller and M r Secretary that the Gentlemen of the Country should be brought to kiss her Hand before they departed The residue of this dayes Passages do follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons it self as also part of the next The Amendments in the Bill touching Shop-Books were twice read and Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury was read the second time and committed unto the Queens Learned Council being Members of this House M r Attorneys of the Dutchy and the Court of Wards Sir Moyle Finch Sir Anthony Cope M r Townsend M r Bacon and others And the Bill was delivered to M r Townsend who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Thursday next at two of the Clock in the Afternoon in the Middle-Temple Hall The Bill for charitable uses was delivered to Mr. Barington On Wednesday the second day of December Four Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being for the Assurance of the Parsonage and Vicaridge of Rotherstone to Tho. Venables Esq was read the second time and committed unto the Knights and Burgesses for Chester and Cheshire the Burgesses for Oxford Sir Edward Hobbie and others who were appointed to meet to Morrow in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock in the Afternoon M r Moore made Report of the meeting of the Committees in the Bill touching the Hospitals and of some Amendments therein The Amendments in the Bill for the three Hospitals were twice read and with the Bill Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill for the Amendments of Double Soal green was read the second time and committed unto M r Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Robert Wroth Sir William Lane and others and the Bill was delivered to Sir Robert Wroth who with the rest was appointed to meet upon Friday next in the Exchequer Chamber at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill to reform abuses used bv the Clerk of the Market was read the second time and thereupon M r Frechevile one of the Knights for Derbyshire spake unto it In that I speak being least worthy I hope it will be deemed to proceed from affection not presumption Besides I have learnt it for a Rule in this House it is better to venture Credit than Conscience There are three things to be considered in this Bill the inconveniency the necessity of the remedy and the conveniency of the punishment For the inconveniency no man but knows it who knows the State of his Country In mine there is nothing more generally complained of than the inequality of measures for the rich have two measures with the one he buyes and ingrosseth Corn in the Country that is the greater with the other he retails it at home to his poor Neighbours that 's by the lesser This is to the great and just complaint of all So after many other matters moved upon Statutes the Bill was committed to M r Frechvile M r Wiseman M r Johnson Sir George Moore Sir Robert Wroth Sir John Egerton the Burgesses and Citizens of all Cities and Corporate Towns the Knights for Norfolk M r Francis Moore M r Zachary Lock M r Warcup M r Simnell M r Doyle and M r Thomas Caesar who were appointed to meet upon Saturday next in this House at two of the Clock in the Afternoon The Bill for the more diligent resort to Church upon Sundays was read the second time unto which divers Speeches were had in the House M r Roger Owen said that he misliked the Bill for two respects the one for the Penalty the other in respect of the Party punishing that is the Justice For the first the Penalty is twelve pence It is well known that the poorest Recusant in England ought as well as the rich to pay his twenty pound and for want of Lands and Goods his Body is lyable And therefore we shall double punish him which is against Law For the other touching the Justice I think it too great a trouble and they are ever loaden with a number of penal Statutes yea a whole Alphabet as appears by Hussey in the time of Henry the Seventh And this is a matter so obvious that a Justice of Peace his House will be like a Quarter Sessions with the multitude of these Complaints I think also it is an infringement of Magna Charta for that gives Tryal per pares but this
Conference or meeting of the said Committees brake up imperfectly and was further deferr'd till the next Morning The Passages of this Afternoon do now follow out of the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons in manner and form following Post Meridiem Three Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill to prevent Perjury and Subornation of Perjury was read the third time and passed upon the question M r Mountague a Committee in the Bill touching Souldiers and others certified in the Bill with some Amendments whereof he prayed the reading The Amendments in the Bill for relief of Souldiers and Mariners were twice read and the Bill was Ordered to be ingrossed The Bill touching Policies of Assurances used amongst Merchants was read the second time and committed unto Sir Walter Raleigh M r Doctor Caesar Sir Francis Bacon Sir Stephen Soame and others And the Bill was delivered to Sir Francis Bacon who with the rest was appointed to meet to Morrow in the Afternoon in the Court of Wards at two of the Clock The Bill touching Hat-Makers was read the third time and upon the question and division of the House passed with the Yea ninety three and with the No forty six John Yakesley Esq returned into this present Parliament one of the Burgesses for the Town of Cambridge is for his necessary affairs licensed by Mr. Speaker to depart Upon Motion made by Serjeant Harris that Anthony Curwin Servant Attendant upon William Huddleston Esq a Member of this House hath been Arrested into the Counter in the Poultrey in London at the Suit of one Matthew a Chyrurgeon It is Ordered that the Serjeant that made the said Arrest and the said Matthew should be sent for to answer in this House for their said contempt as appertaineth M r Adam and Listers Councel are appointed to be heard to Morrow On Saturday the 12 th day of December the Bill to avoid the stealing of Cattle was read the second time and committed unto Sir George Moore Mr. Maynard Mr. Brown and others who were appointed to meet upon Tuesday next in the Middle-Temple Hall at two of the Clock in the Afternoon Two Bills had each of them one reading of which the second being the Bill for Confirmation of the Mannor of Sagebury aliàs Sadgbury unto John Harris and Samuel Sandys Gent. was read the third time and passed upon the question Some part of this Forenoons Passages doth now next follow out of private Journals An Act for redress of certain abuses used in Painting was read the third time It was moved by Sir George Moore and some others that the Bill might be let slip and the Cause refer'd to the Lord Mayor of London because it concerned a Controversie between the Painters and Plaisterers of London To which M r Davies Answered That the last Parliament this Bill should have past this House but it was refer'd as is now desired and Bonds made by the Plaisterers for performance of the Orders to be set down by the Lord Mayor yet all will do no good Wherefore M r Speaker I think it good to be put to the question Sir Stephen Soame desired that my Lord Mayor might not be troubled with them c. but that it might be put to the question and it seemed likely to go against the Painters But M r Heyward Townsend as it was putting to the question stood up and shewed that in the Statute of 25 Ed. 3. Cap. 3. Plaisterers were not then so called but Dawbers and Mudwall-Makers who had for their Wages by the day three pence and their Knave three half pence for so was his Labourer called they so continued till King Henry the Sevenths time who brought into England with him out of France certain men that used Plaister of Paris about the Kings Sieling and Walls whose Statute Labourers these Dawbers were These Statute Labourers learned in short time the use of Plaister of Paris and did it for the King who increased to be many then suing to the King for his Favour to Incorporate them he did fulfil their desire Incorporating them by the name of Gipsarium which was for Clay and Mud aliàs Morter-Makers An. 16 Hen. 7. being no Freemen for all their Corporation they obtained the Kings Letters in their favour to Sir William Remmington the Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen to allow them Freemen which was granted at what time came in four of them paying ten shillings a piece for their Freedoms And in three years after that manner came in to the number of twenty but they paid four pound a piece for their Freedom They renewed their Patent in King Henry the Eighths time and called themselves Plaisterers aliàs Morter-Makers for the use of Loam and Lyme They made an humble Petition and Supplication after this to Sir John Munday then Lord Mayor and to the Aldermen to grant them Ordinances for the better Rule and Government of their Company in these words viz. We the good Folks of Plaisterers in London of Plaister and Loam of the said City for redress of certain abuses of Lath-Plaister and Loam wrought in the said Craft c. and had allowed unto them search for their Company for the use of Lath Loam and Lyme In all their Corporations at no time had they the word Colours neither yet in their Ordinances For all they were incorporated by the name of Plaisterers yet in all King Henry the Eighths time they were called Dawbers as appears in the Accompts of the Chamber of London paid to such and such Dawbers for so many days so much and to their Labourers so much The Plaisterers never laid any Colour upon any of the Kings Houses nor in the Sheriffs of London but this Year They wore no Livery or Cloathing in the seventeenth of King Henry the Eighth They have been suffered to lay Alehouse Colours as red Lead and Oaker with such like and now intrude themselves to all Colours Thus they take not only their own work but Painting also and leave nothing to do for the Painter Painters and Stainers were two several Companies in King Edward the Thirds time one for Painting of Posts and all Timber-Work and the other for Staining and Painting of Cloth of great continuance The two several Companies were joined both into one by their own consents and by the consents of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City the nineteenth year of King Edward the Fourth The Painters had Orders allowed them for the use of Oyl and Colours especially named in King Henry the Fourths time from the Lord Mayor and City Painters cannot work without Colours their only mixture being Oyl and Size which the Plaisterers do now usurp and intrude into Painters have her Majesties Letters Patents dated the twenty fourth year of Elizabeth forbidding any Artificer the use of Colours and Oyl or Size after the manner of Painting but only such as have been or shall be Apprentice namely
No M r Speaker said the Order of the House is that the I being for the Bill must go out and the No against the Bill doth always sit The reason is that the Inventor that will have a new Law is to go out and bring it in and they that are for the Law in possession must keep the House for they sit to continue it Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal The further Passages of this day and part of the next do follow out of the Original Journal-Book it self M r Attorney General and M r Doctor Stanhop do bring from the Lords a Bill Intituled An Act for Explanation and Confirmation of her Majesties Title to the Lands and Tenements late of Sir Francis Englefield Knight Attainted of High Treason On Wednesday the 21 th day of March Three Bills of no great moment had each of them one reading of which the last being the Bill for the maintenance of the Haven in the Town of Colchester and for the paving of the same Town had its first reading The Amendments in the Bill touching the breadth of Plunkets Azures and Blues being twice read the Bill was upon the question Ordered to be ingrossed The Amendments in the Bill for the more speedy and due Execution of Process against Recusants being twice read the Bill was upon the Question Ordered to be ingrossed The Councel on both sides were this day heard at large in this House in the Bill against Aliens selling by way of retail any Foreign Commodities and afterwards sequestred Which done the Amendments intended by the Committees in the said Bill were read unto the House and after the reading Ordered upon the question to be inserted into the same Bill accordingly After which there followed divers long Speeches and Arguments on both sides both with the Bill and against the Bill which said Speeches being omitted in the Original Journal-Book of the House of Commons are in respect of the great weight of this matter touching Aliens now controverted supplied out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal more particularly mentioned at the beginning of this present Journal in manner and form following viz. M r Francis Moore of the Middle-Temple being as it should seem at the Bar of Councel with the City of London and in their behalf to speak for the making of a new Law by the Order of the House spake first and did at large set forth the inconveniencies that grew to our Nation and Tradesmen by suffering I Tradesmen to retail First because that Strangers Wares are better than ours which causeth that our Retaylors have no sale of their Wares They sell cheaper though their Wares be as good as ours And this is by reason they have Factors beyond the Seas that are their Friends and Kinsfolks and so they save that Charge A thing to be noted And wheresoever they are our own native Retaylors are Beggars They receive Gentlemen and Yeomens Sons to be their Apprentices themselves being Retaylors and this is no Trade afterwards for them to live on So many Beggars be made consuming their time under them Their retailing Beggering our Retaylors makes a diminution of the Queens Subsidies Their riches and multitude makes our Estate poorer and weaker for they stick upon our wealth and carry it into Foreign Countries In the Statute Richard 3. Cap. 9. there appeareth the like Complaint that now is which being then made unto the King was then remedied as appeareth by the Statute And for the Objections made First that it were against Charity that Strangers sleeing hither for Religion and relief should be restrained from the means of getting their livings Secondly that their retailing 〈◊〉 seneth the prices of our Wares and encreaseth the number of Buyers and Thirdly that it were violating of their priviledge if we have them by their diminution The priviledge of S t Martins hath always been allowed and now not to be denied To Answer to these in Order First Charity must be mixt with Policy for to give of Charity to our own Beggering were but Prodigality and such Charity we use for we allow them all Trades that they have been brought up in but retailing is a thing that they were never brought up unto in their own Countries so no reason to allow it them here To the second they buy of us and sell as brought from beyond Seas and upon this opinion sell our own Wares dearer than we can do Their priviledge of Denization is not to be allowed above the priviledge of Birth and our Natives are not allowed to Retail and Merchandize as they do And it may appear by a former Statute that notwithstanding their Denization they have been bound under the Statute 34 H. 8. And though the Stranger Merchants pay double Subsidies yet Strangers Retaylors do not but are taxed by the place and that under value because their goods and wealth is secret but barr retailing and they will all of them be Merchants and so the Subsidy shall be doubled S t Martins was first allowed for a Sanctuary and for that Cause had his priviledge and not to be so ill a Neighbour to the City as to rob it as it doth and by former Statutes St. Martins hath been barred as by the Statute 21 H. 8. appeareth only the Statute of 1. H. 8. exempted it M r Proud of Lincolns-Inn being as it should seem at the Bar of Councel with the Strangers and in their behalf to speak made particular Answer to M r Moore for Strangers in resisting his Answers to the five Objections Then he offered if the Liberties of the Natives born might be granted to Strangers they would seek no more for they desired but to trade in all parts of the Realm M r Hill of Lincolns-Inn of Councel also with the Strangers spake next and said Make it Law that they shall not retail and the Merchants hereafter will require a Law that they may not use Merchandise and so the Shoo-maker Taylor and others that they may not use their Trades and in denying them one you take away all Upon this instant M r Speaker delivered a Bill which desired they might be barred of such Trades as to be Shoo-makers and such like But this Bill was thought to be put in by the Strangers themselves of Policy This I thought And besides these Retaylors themselves be not Aliens but far Foreigners such as have forsaken their own Countries and Liberties to live here in ours and home they dare not resort Further of the things they retail we have no Company or Trade here in England and therefore it were unreasonable to bar them of their said Retailing It should seem that these three last before-named were all of the Councel of either part that spoke at the Bar and that the Speeches following were all of them uttered by several Members of the House Sir John Wolley spake next as it should seem after the Councel of either part had been heard at the Bar and said This Bill
should be ill for London for the Riches and Renown of the City cometh by entertaining of Strangers and giving liberty unto them Antwerp and Venice could never have been so rich and famous but by entertaining of Strangers and by that means have gained all the intercourse of the World M r Fuller spake next against Alien Retaylors and said The Exclamations of the City are exceeding pitiful and great against these Strangers nay had not these latter quiet times in their own Countries and our troubles made many of them retire home the Citizens would have been in uproar against them The which if the Government of the City repress not they will be apt enough to it It is no Charity to have this pity on them to our own utter undoing for of them there ought none to be sworn a Denizen but he should first swear he is not worth five pound This is to be noted in these Strangers they will not converse with us they will not marry with us they will not buy any thing of our Country-men Their retailing is the cause that all things be at that price with us For they make Lawns Velvets Rashes Taffaraes Linnen-Cloth and all this they sell to us also Now whosoever maketh a thing and selleth a thing raiseth the price of it The Retailing Stranger buyeth nothing of our Country Commodities but all he layeth out he buyeth from beyond the Seas The Searchers have sometimes taken seven thousand pound of theirs at a time Sir Edward Dymock speaking for the Strangers said The Beggery of our home Retaylors comes not by the Strangers Retailing but by our home ingrossers so that if our Retaylors might be at the first hand they might sell as good cheap as the Strangers But this Bill is thrust into the House by our home Ingrossers of Policy that their beggering of our Retaylors might be imputed to the Strangers Retailing The Strangers here purchase dear And beyond the Seas it is lawful for the Strangers in the places of the best Traffick to trade in any thing In Venice any Stranger may buy sell or purchase House or Lands and dispose thereof by his Will or otherwise at his pleasure as freely as any Citizen And this may we do then in some sort The Strangers are not they that transport our Coin but it is our Merchants For it is to be seen in all the Low-Countries where her Majesty uttereth much Treasure there is not so much English Coin to be had as in the same Towns where the Merchants trade And of my own Experience I know a Town in the Low-Countries where a Contract of twenty pound was made by an English Merchant and he agreed to pay it all in English Angels M r Dalton against the Strangers said That ingrossing ought to be suffered amongst Merchants because otherwise the Commodities lying to be sold in parcels would be consumed in Expences before the Ship were discharged Therefore for Merchandise sake this is to be suffered He imputed the Beggery of the City to Strangers and said that in some one Parish there were a thousand lived by Begging M r Finch spake for the Strangers and said We ought not to be uncharitable but this must be the Rule None must so relieve Strangers as by it to begger themselves But for their riches it groweth chiefly by Parsimony and where they dwell I see not that the Nation is so much grieved at them as here in London for they contribute to all Scots and Lots as we do Though they be a Church by themselves their Example is profitable amongst us for their Children are no sooner able to go but they are taught to serve God and to flee idleness for the least of them earneth his meat by his labour Our Nation is sure more blessed for their sakes Wherefore as the Scripture saith Let us not grieve the Soul of the stranger If this Stranger be both a Merchant and a Retaylor there 's a Law against him 15 Eliz. c. 2. But as I am for the Strangers of the Church so not against any Law that should be made against such Strangers as be not of the Church but here only for Merchandize and those who have for Conscience sake only may again the fire being quenched safely return into their own Countries In 6 R. 2. An Act was made what Wares strangers should retayle and what not but what is understood by this word retailing or how far it is stretched I know not If Retayling stretch to sell that which they make here as well as that which is brought from beyond Seas this is too hard a Construction In the days of Queen Mary when our Cause was as theirs is now those Countries did allow us that liberty which now we seek to deuy them They are strangers now we may be strangers hereafter So let us do as we would be done unto Serjeant Drew said There is no reason we should be without respect to Strangers yet our Charity must be done with a feeling of our Countrymens grief And although I think it not fit that the Law should look back to have old men long inhabiting here now to become Apprentices yet that all things should be at liberty to all strangers as it is that were not convenient Wherefore I could wish there might be a Law for those that should come hereafter only and the strangers that be now might be restrained to their Retayling of some Wares especially My Motion therefore is That the House would continue the Committee of the Bill until a further day that it may receive Motion from their deliberation Thus far out of the aforesaid Anonymous Journal the residue of this days passages that follow and part of the next are transcribed out of the Original Journal-Book it self After the aforesaid Speeches and Arguments the said Bill against Aliens selling by Retail was upon the question recommitted unto the former Committees who had been appointed on Tuesday the 6 th day of this Instant March foregoing to meet again about the same Bill in the Afternoon of this present day and the Bill was also delivered to M r Dalton one of the same Committees Sir William Bevel Knight one of the Knights returned for the County of Cornwal in respect of his Wises extream sickness is by M r Speaker licensed to depart Thomas Maylard one of the Burgesses for Hertford is for his necessary business at the Assizes licensed by M r Speaker to depart On Thursday the 22 d day of March the Bill for the Grant of three intire Subsidies and six Fifteenths and Tenths was read the third time and passed upon the question Nota That this Bill of the Subsidy in respect of the greatness of the sum passed the House of Commons with very great difficulty as may appear by those several days upon which it was agitated 〈◊〉 on Monday the 25 th day of February and on Friday the second day Saturday the third day Tuesday the 6 th day Wednesday the